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Highlights of President Clintons Counterterrorism Funding
Request May 17, 2000

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release

May 17, 2000

Highlights of President Clintons
Counterterrorism Funding Request May 17, 2000

President Clinton announced a plan today to invest an additional $300
million in critical programs to strengthen the Nations counterterrorism
efforts.

The funding would enhance the Federal governments work to deter
and detect terrorist activity, applying lessons learned from the
counterterrorism effort undertaken during Millennium celebration events. The
request proposes $89 million for the Department of Justice and $87 million for
the Department of the Treasury to fund extra personnel, new equipment, and
additional joint operations and infrastructure improvements. An additional $159
million is proposed for other agencies to support these efforts.

Highlights of the initiative include:

Increasing the number of Joint Terrorism Task Forces located
throughout the United States. The Task Forces were established to integrate the
resources and expertise of the law enforcement authorities of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Immigration and Naturalization Service
(INS), the U.S. Customs Service, ATF, Secret Service and state and local law
enforcement.

Improving monitoring on the northern border with secure
communications equipment and advanced monitoring equipment, including high
resolution day and night camera technology.

Supporting the establishment of a new interagency National
Terrorist Asset Tracking Center to analyze the financing of terrorist
organizations and expand the Office of Foreign Asset Control at the Department
of the Treasury.

Increasing the number of Department of Justice prosecutors and
legal staff to support the prosecution of terrorists.

Increasing the Department of the Treasurys
Counterterrorism Fund that was established to cover costs associated with
efforts to counter, investigate or prosecute domestic or international
terrorism.

Todays request builds on activities already being undertaken. In
FY 2000, reprogramming funds the majority of the package. A fully offset FY
2001 budget amendment will be submitted to Congress.